Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey would, of course, prefer to satisfy all of the party's rebellious factions and keep them in the fold, particularly the antiwar people. He took a significant step in that direction last week by enlisting two impressive public figures. George Ball resigned...
...often it was only to wield an indiscriminate axe. To win approval of his anti-inflationary 10% income tax surcharge, the President last spring agreed to a $180 billion budget ceiling. Last week the Senate refused to exempt Medicaid benefits for the poor from that ceiling, then went one step further and sliced $500 million from the $2.3 billion originally allocated to Medicaid...
...magistrates in the 1770s? When a society's leadership lets too many oppressive or unworkable laws accumulate, or takes them too literally, it lessens genuine respect for laws that are just and necessary. But to break laws in order ultimately to change the Law is a near-desperate step permissible only when every possible hope of peaceful change has been exhausted; very few Americans would argue that, for all the country's ills, that step is justified today...
...partial solution to overworked police forces: Split up the policeman's job three different ways. Under this plan, a "community service officer," often a youth from the ghetto, would perform minor investigative chores, rescue cats, and keep in touch with combustible young people. A police officer, one step higher, would control traffic, hold back crowds at parades, and investigate more serious crimes. A police agent, the best-trained, best-educated man on the ladder, would patrol high-crime areas, respond to delicate racial situations, and take care of tense confrontations...
...welcomed that old wrecker of European unity, Charles de Gaulle, to Bonn on his annual visit with somewhat mixed feelings. On the eve of the French President's arrival, Brandt issued a public statement that had an unmistakable meaning for the French. "I would be sorry for every step that we must take without France," said Brandt. "But no one could be satisfied if we stood still or moved in circles...